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Re: What Failed?????
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on August 02, 2004 at 13:28:43 from (209.226.106.26):
In Reply to: What Failed????? posted by scotty on August 02, 2004 at 04:32:47:
scotty: I haven't seen this article and probably won't see it. Is this article about the IH demise or the failure of the 560 just being part of that demise. The demise started with fast hitch and fast hitch was a far bigger factor in the demise of IH than any failure of the 560. Harry Ferguson had won the hitch war before IH sold its first fast hitch on the Super C in 1952. For 10 years IH continued to flog the fast hitch while customers buying 30 to 50 hp tractors and related equipment were leaving in droves, as they didn't want to be married to fast hitch. They wanted a universal hitch so if the mower or plow from MF, JD, Ford, etc was a better buy they had options. Many of these customers left IH never to return. Yes the 560 rear end and transmission had problems in the first 3 years, but that was only aprox. 36,000 tractors. Close to that many more 560's were manufactured after that with no problems. I'd be willing to bet glow plugs in tractors, between 1958 and 1965 cost IH a whole lot more business than the 560 did. In my opinion that 560 issue has been blown away out of proportion in the demise of IH. If you look at the number of owners that had two of them, probably somewhere in the order of 30,000 customers were affected by the 560 problem. That is peanuts across North America.
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